Robotics
Engineers have designed robots that crawl, swim, fly and even slither like a snake, but no robot can hold a candle to a squirrel, which can parkour through a thicket of branches, leap across perilous gaps and execute pinpoint ...
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Engineering
Researchers at the University of Turku, Finland, investigated how to use bio-based materials to produce effective UV protection films for solar cells. The study, published in ACS Applied Optical Materials, was the first to ...
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Consumer & Gadgets
Most coffee connoisseurs are familiar with the gentle hum of their favorite café's grinder while they wait in eager anticipation of that aromatic first sip. But behind this everyday scene lies a surprisingly tricky problem. ...
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Engineering
Using seawater, electricity and carbon dioxide (CO2), Northwestern University scientists have developed a new carbon-negative building material.
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Engineering
The rapid growth of industrialization has made the treatment of oily wastewater a pressing global challenge in environmental remediation. Electrocoagulation (EC), a process known for its high efficiency and environmental ...
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Engineering
New York's JFK airport is an overlapping patchwork of open terminals, giant building sites and burgeoning infrastructure, wedged in by thousands of homes on one side and the ocean on the other.
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Engineering
It's difficult to build devices that replicate the fluid, precise motion of humans, but that might change if we could pull a few (literal) strings. At least, that's the idea behind "cable-driven" mechanisms in which running ...
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Engineering
Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) systems represent cutting-edge technology in infrastructure monitoring, capable of detecting minute vibrations along fiber optic cables spanning tens of kilometers. These systems have proven ...
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Snap a photo of your meal, and artificial intelligence instantly tells you its calorie count, fat content, and nutritional value—no more food diaries or guesswork.
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Engineering
A team of medical researchers and engineers at Google Research has developed a way to use the front-facing camera on a smartphone to monitor a patient's heart rate. The team has published a paper on the technology on the ...
